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Ask HN: Why aren't there any cars in Nineteen Eighty-Four?
26 by bookstore-romeo | 22 comments on Hacker News.
In the entirety of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, I haven't noticed a single car or truck in the streets of Oceania. Sure, Winston takes the train once or twice, but no cars? I would have thought the generally envisioned future of the 40's included car-ridden roads. Was this novel even more ahead of its time than I thought?